The Lightning Envoy Arrives Early (Third Update)

The hatred between the Five Great Shinobi Villages was far more intense than the enmity between Snow Ninja Village and its foes.

The conflict with Snow Ninja Village was a new grudge.

But its old grudges with Konoha and Kumogakure were another matter.

Even after more than a decade, they might not have faded much. If anything, they could have grown even stronger. How much blood from each other's villages had they spilled over the years? It was beyond counting. So at a gathering like this, every country's delegation would surely be on high alert, wary of the other villages' ninja. Never mind any plots or schemes; they had to worry about some hotheaded fool charging in to take revenge. It wasn't as if that hadn't happened in the past few decades.

The infamous Gold and Silver Brothers of Kumogakure were the perfect example.

Their own Raikage had been about to sign a peace treaty with Konoha.

Yet the Gold and Silver Brothers, unwilling to accept defeat, had launched a coup instead.

They had planned not only to kill the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, but also to spare neither their own Raikage. That showed just how unreasonable ninja could be.

As the hosts,

the Snow Ninja had a duty to maintain order throughout the ceremony.

They certainly didn't want anything to go wrong.

This was an important milestone, establishing their village and country as a great power.

If anyone dared to cause trouble at the ceremony, the Snow Ninja would not stand idly by.

But as the saying went, the safest way was to handle your own affairs yourself.

The Shinobi World's order had been overturned for the first time in decades.

Every country and village attached great importance to this grand summit.

Even the Akatsuki, lurking in the shadows,